On 3 December 2014 at 15:46, Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > A spammer is periodically posting messages in Chinese to the User Diaries.
Thanks for the analysis, I hope it provides developers with ideas for combatting it via the automated spam filters that we already have[1]. However, spam is an arms race, and I think we might need a different long-term approach. I know in the past using 3rd-party spam filtering services was too expensive (and not really very OSM-ish either). Perhaps we need a new set of human content moderators on the site, say 40-80 people with a variety of languages between them. We can consider grey-listing all accounts - i.e. the first few posts of every account is held for review automatically by default, and enable direct posting after we're more certain they aren't a spammer. Of course, this would all need coding, but I'm interested in other people's ideas. The current situation where our spam filters can be overwhelmed, and all the removal of spam depends on full-blown system-administrator[2] accounts, isn't perfect! Thanks, Andy [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/app/models/user.rb#L211 [2] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/app/controllers/diary_entry_controller.rb#L10 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
